Sleeping Beauties

Art Scenarios series

Editor(s) of the series: Alain Bergala

This series aims to analyze the major themes of painting with concepts generally applied to film. "The collection is not a catalog, still less an encyclopedia. Each film sets out freely on the paths of art history" (Alain Bergala).

Painted and sculpted images of sleeping women have always nourished the visual curiosity of artists and viewers alike. Obliviously exposing body and soul on the painted surface, these erotic heroines are the stuff of fantasy.